Branching for Versioning

phenderson · Post by **phenderson** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:21 am

Hi,

We need to have multiple versions of our application in order to account for various OS environments. Is branching a suitable means to accomplishing this? Should we have separate repositories instead? Thanks!

dan · Post by **dan** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:21 am

Branching is the best way to go if you want multiple versions, and want the ability to move changes from one version to another (via the Merge Branches command)

phenderson · Post by **phenderson** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:23 am

So you can select which changes to merge back in as opposed to merging the entire branch?

dan · Post by **dan** » Wed Jun 21, 2006 11:01 am

phenderson wrote:So you can select which changes to merge back in as opposed to merging the entire branch?

Yes

You might want to play around with it in a test repository to get a feel for how it works.